I said I wasn't going to post...

[conuly]

But I need somebody to smack me into sense, and my sister isn't picking up the phone.

I'm almost done with my essay. I'm doing it on cultural relativism. He's already pre-written our outlines, so it's simple. At one point, we're supposed to explain "how a cultural relativist, like yourself, would defend cultural relativism against Rachels' argument (that the cultural differences argument is invalid because (example) it'd be silly to say there is no objective truth about the shape of the world just because two cultures say the earth is two different shapes). I assume he expects us to say that there's no reason to believe that moral truths are the same as truths about, say, the shape of the world... but he didn't realize that "myself" is crazy. I want to say that there's no reason to believe that all things MUST have objective truths! After all, if light can be both a particle and a wave depending on the observer, and Schrodinger's cat can be both dead and alive until you look in the box, why can't something be both right and wrong depending on the culture?

I'm not sure this is a good argument.
In fact, I'm pretty sure it's a stupid argument.
In fact, I'm positive that this will fail me.
But I want to say it anyway!
It's so cool!
And neat!
And it invokes physics!

Somebody hit me. Hard. Make me stop being crazy.

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[conuly]

Rachel's a guy, with a weird last name.

But thanks! *hums to herself*

I'll post my essay when I'm done. I'm rather proud of it, actually. All I need is a few quotes, and some more information on the observer effect (anybody got a copy of elegant universe for me?)

[conuly]

And actually, he's quite a good teacher. But this is an intro class, and a summer class, and I doubt people are used to writing 6 pages for core classes. I think he outlines are to make sure people have some idea what they're writing about. He's not VERY detailed with the outlines, but he does want to make sure we know what we're talking about. I'll post the list of topics later too, so you know what I mean.